"Eyt. Rakine." Rooda sat up, walked over to us, and hugged both of us with each arm around our necks. "I'm so glad you're both okay."
"Guess his grip on all of us has stopped." Rakine sighed in relief.
I tried to manage a little smile but turned away. Rakine tapped my shoulder to get my attention.
"Hey. Are you okay?"
"I'm fine- It's just I worry now, if he let go of us now, it must mean he's planning something when we get to him on Hoth. Plus now that Rooda's awake. I- I haven't felt any positive emotion for a long time."
"You're happy she's alright." He chuckled.
"Well yeah. We're friends."
Rakine looked to me, then to Rooda, then he smirked jokingly.
"I see what's going on here." He chuckled and leaned back against a wall. "Lord Venison here is a little-"
"Enough, Rakine." I glared.
Rakine stopped talking but when I looked back out the window, I sensed his next motions and gestures. He looked at Rooda, he pointed at me, and made a heart with his hands, then pointing at Rooda. I could feel her emotions rising.
"So, Ven, are you sure we need to head straight to Hoth to stop Sorin?"
"The sooner the better." I watched the sails wave in space. "I can't stand the thought of his existence.
Rooda, still focused on what Rakine exposed me for, she turned to the wall.
"But on Zant, warriors are not allowed to love." She whispered and looked back at Rakine. "Eyt told me we'd both rule Zant together as its masters."
"That's just the Dark Side talking. He told you that you would both rule "together" though." He smirked at looked at the back of my head as I tried to ignore them. "He's all crazy about you, Rooda." He whispers to her. "The Force around him says it all."
I looked in the corner of my eye and stared at Rakine in slight anger and I watch Rooda nervously turn her head, trying to hide her own emotions. Suddenly Rakine laughs.
"It's all around you too Rooda. Just look at you two." He turned to me. "You remind me of little Ani before he became Lord Vader. He left his spouse, submitting to the Dark Side as the Chancellor's apprentice. His dear Padmé was heartbroken." Me and Rooda looked at each other nervously. "Until she died." I walked away from the pilot station and smacked him across the face.
"That's enough, Rakine," I said to him calmly before walking back to the pilot station. I hear Rakine mumble.
"Ven and Roo," he chuckles as he talks about us to himself. "God, I should have expected that sooner. They're both deer, they've known each other a long time. They're besties."
"Rakine?" Rooda looked at him, kindly.
"Yes?"
"Shut up." She began to glare.
"Denial won't work forever you know. You both are in over each other and the sooner you realize and accept it, the better your relationship will be."
"I said, "shut up" Rakine." She turned away and sighed when glancing back at me.
Rakine makes an "I told you" face at Rooda, then turns to me.
"So you know where he is. But why would he pick Hoth to hide on?"
"To avoid all detection for the Empire. I'm sure Palpatine is still hunting to kill him like he killed Plagueis." I looked ahead as the Hoth system came closer.
Rakine shrugged and juggled his lightsaber with his right hand.
"Zant's Nightmare might not travel quickly to Hoth, but the trip is now smooth sailing, literally." I looked out at the sails connected to the antler like poles. "Lord Sorin designed the exterior for me."
Rooda stood up and sat in the seat next to me.
"So you two are going to face Sorin? What do I do?"
"You should stay here in the Nightmare until its safe. I-" I looked away. Rakine was right. "I don't want anything bad to happen to you while we're gone."
"But warriors train together. Doesn't that mean anything to you? We're Zan-Deer remember?"
"I remember. But this isn't training. But I also can't return to Zant and show my face again. I killed Tzano."
"The chief?"
Rooda and I nodded.
"There's no way you can go back there." He shook his head.
Rooda looked at me, with a smile on her face.
"I really don't care about Zant anymore." She leaned her head on my shoulder. I turned to Rakine.
"When I first met you two, you were hard as nails. Now you're both softening up to each other just like-" he snaps his fingers, "-that!"
"We weren't allowed to show positive emotions on Zant." Rooda rest her head by my side and smiled. I try not to look back at her, embarrassed.
"Cute," Rakine makes a straight but stupid face.
We reached Hoth and the sails retracted back into the ship, and we landed back at the entrance of the hangar.
"Remember, this is it. After Sorin is dead, we can finally go back to Coruscant and finish your training, if that's what you want." Rakine stood up and held his lightsaber.
"Sounds like a plan." Rooda and I stand up and I grab my lightsabers. "Rooda, I want you to stay here. While we both go. We will be back in a little bit."
"What if you don't come back? He's a Sith Lord, Eyt."
"So am I." I knew I had to do something to keep her here. So I leaned over to her and gave her a small kiss. I hear Rakine drop his lightsaber in his hand and I looked back at Rooda.
"Now there's no way I'm leaving you." She stood up.
"No. I can't afford anything to happen to you. It's safe in here." I looked at her carefully. "Please stay in here."
She sighed and sat back down.
"Alright. I'll stay."
I nodded and walked out of the Nightmare, watching the door close behind me. I look to Rakine, as he continues smirking.
"I knew it."
I rolled my eyes and when the door opened, we entered the base. Rakine and I walked into the main chamber of the base where we found Lord Sorin on the floor unconscious. When I threw him out of my mind, he must have actually been thrown. I walked over carefully and in an instant, he sprung up in the air over me and behind Rakine. When Rakine swung his blade behind him Sorin jumped again. I ignited all ten of my crimson blades and Sorin ran down a hallway and jumped down a few floors to the lightsaber room. Rakine and I chased after him and cornered him.
"Now my apprentices, don't be foolish." He backed away into a table. Sorin pulled a red greatsaber and a matching light-shield off the table.
"You betrayed us. You tricked us. You tried to kill us. Why should we trust you? All you ever did was lie to us and hurt us, physically, mentally, and emotionally."
I walked over to Sorin as he backflipped over the table and I jumped after him. I swung my two crimson lightsabers at him and he blocks with the greatsaber. He Force throws me aside and Rakine jumps to him and Sorin Force shoves him in a wall and starts to possess him. Rakine jumps off the wall to me and both Sorin and Rakine come to me, performing the same moves in unison. I block both of them and jump to Sorin and slash at him, losing his grip on Rakine. We both go to Sorin and Rakine jumps over him, on Sorin's other side. He turns to me and possesses me. I feel him both in me and in front of me and I watch both of him walk to Rakine. He blocks our attacks and slashes at Sorin, cutting his grip from me.
"I suggest a new strategy."
I walked closer to Sorin twirling the lightsaber in my left hand. Sorin walked over and blocked Rakine on one side and swung to me on the other side. He kicked me off into a wall and turned to Rakine, who now Force sprinted past Sorin and slashed him on the back. Sorin's black robe caught a long slash across the back, but his torso was well armored under. Sorin cackled and turned around to attack. I Force jumped over to them and rapidly swung at Sorin, barely able to block the attacks. I sliced his robe's entire right sleeve and knocked the light-shield out of his hand. He Force jumped up in the air and hovered before us, floating in the air. He slowly circled us as Rakine pulled out a blaster from his jacket pocket and fired right at Sorin's chest. The blast struck through the armor under his robe and hit his skin. Sorin started swooping down to us, swinging the greatsaber and Force pulling the light-shield to him.
"He's wearing Mandalorian armor or something," Rakine glared at Sorin.
"How can you tell that it's Mandalorian?" I asked.
"Because it's so damn strong!"
"Fools," Sorin chuckled. "This is a very pointless move."
Sorin walked slowly toward us. I Force jumped right over him and swung into his back, he turned around and backed away as I kept slashing his armor until it broke off in chunks. Sorin took off his shredded robe and revealed his black Mandalorian armor underneath, and jumped back to throw the large greatsaber at me. I sidestepped and watched the greatsaber hit the wall behind me in a large red spinning disc. Sorin Force pulled another lightsaber from a table and ignited its blade. He lunged to Rakine and both of them exchanged attacks from the other. I reached the case with my darksaber and sliced a hole in the case, reaching for the darksaber and hiding it on the back of my belt. Rakine becomes possessed and jumps straight to me and I block his blade from my chest and I Force kick him away and flip over to Sorin. He tries to sever my head and I use my antler-sabers to block the hit. I Force throw him into a wall and start Force choking the Sith Lord.
"Lord Venison-" he gags as the possessed Rakine jumps behind me and swings his blade into my antler-sabers' blades. With one hand I'm choking Sorin and with the other, I'm blocking Rakine's attacks and he kicks me into a wall, hitting my stomach against the concrete wall. I feel a sharp, hot, stabbing pain through my lower abdomen and sink down to my knees. I lose my grip on Sorin's throat. I open my cloak and see a round burn mark in my stomach. I was stabbed. I turned around and looked up at Rakine.
"Goodbye, Lord Venison." Rakine towers above me, above to finish me, until I jerk my head forward and use my antler-sabers to block again. I get up, holding my abdomen in pain, and I scream in a shrill, unholy rage. I swing recklessly to Rakine with one hand, and still holding the lightsaber, I Force throw him into the floor and stand on his chest with one foot. I hold both blades at him and at Sorin behind me. I roundhouse kick him to the floor and he lands next to Rakin.
"Get out of Rakine's body, Lord Sorin." I turn to the puppeteer and hold a blade at his neck. "NOW!" I see his white goatee melt off by the blade in my hand, and Rakine gasps under my foot. I step off him as he holds his head in pain. When I turn to Sorin, he got up and starts running out of the room and down the hall. Rakine and I chase after him and he Force pulls an army of battle droids to his side.
"Attack them, droids." He said to them before running.
"Roger roger." The droids open fire on me and Rakine. Rakine starts deflecting shots with his lightsaber and I run to a wall, run up, and perform a sideflip off the wall, igniting my lightsabers and piercing some droids. Rakine jumps to my side and we easily destroy the battle droids. We continue our pursuit for Sorin and we run up to the top floor to the entrance. We see him enter Zant's Nightmare and I stop in fear.
"Rooda." I Force sprint to the ship and when I reach the door, Sorin is standing behind Rooda, holding a shoto lightsaber at her neck.
"One step and she dies. And Lord Venison, I know that's not what you want. The Force tells me everything between you two. I know you won't take a step to her. You love her. We can see it." Sorin snarls at Rooda and holds the blade at her throat. Rooda elbows Sorin in the stomach, dropping his shoto blade, and she throws him over her shoulder on his back. Rakine and I walk to him and he springs up, Force pushing Rakine into the wall of the ship and running. I chase him out into the snowy storm and he pulls the shoto to him and draws two greatsabers off his belt.
"Now, Lord Venison," he chuckled menacingly, "let's finish it here. A master, and an apprentice."
I jump to him and swing my blades, chopping one greatsaber in half by the emitter and kicking him into the snow. He jumps up and Force throws a crimson lightsaber off into the snow.
"You are not my master, and I am not your apprentice." I walk over to him and Rakine and Rooda watch me fight Sorin in the blizzard. I corner him against a cliff with my cloak's cape flowing in the wind. When I hold jumps over me and I quickly counter, pulling out my darksaber and sticking its blade through his stomach.
"One more thing, the name is Eyt." I Force throw him into the entrance of the hangar on the ground. I jump up in the air and perform a finishing stab straight through his chest, with my darksaber, under his heart. He howls in pain and when I back away from him, he stands up, the black blade still through his chest. He stumbled about clumsily and he looked at me.
"Such hate. Such anger." He smirked as I glared at him. "You are clearly a powerful Sith." He looked up at the snow and groaned in pain, he looked at the blade in his chest and slowly pulled it out. He dropped my darksaber to the ground and, while still standing up, his head droops down and his final breath fades in the frozen air. Sith Lord Sorin was dead. The tremors in the Force around him slowly began to fade.
I took my weapons back and walked into the ship, and I stop and crumble to the floor, feeling the stab of the lightsaber getting sharper and more painful. I fall to my side and blacked out, giving in to my stomach wound.